The Politics of Modernist Poetics: Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell and Imagism:
Imagism was the poetry of directness and distillation championed by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the first years of the 20th century, reacting against the flowery verse of late Romanticism and urging poets to look to earlier models—like Sappho in ancient Greece and Li Po in 8th century China—to create a poetry of precise and powerful images, without any superfluous words or ornaments.
Great literature will live on with or without a prize
- The Observer, Sunday 16 October 2011
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- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011 21.31 GMT
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Given that the Booker is at heart a speed-reading contest for judges – 100-odd novels to read in a couple of months – it is not surprising that those poor unfortunates faced with the task favour books that can be tackled in a few swift hours. Eighty books in and counting, who would want to be confronted with Finnegans Wake?
“Poetic possibilities
Review by MARTIN SPICE
Poet/editor Ezra Pound’s contribution to what we now know as The Waste Land was profound and is well documented. Many years ago, British publishers Faber & Faber released a facsimile transcript showing his comments and crossings out and he is frequently referred to, rightly or wrongly, as the architect of the poem. Those amendments and alterations are included in the app and can be seen alongside the final version of the poem. There are hours of interest here in examining just what Pound left in and took out.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/7/5/lifebookshelf/9009337&sec=lifebookshelf
Mad about the girl: Tate Liverpool’s Alice in Wonderland show

Lewis Carroll, or rather the fictive world of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is firmly embedded in our culture. I am surprised no one has made a religion out of Alice. Perhaps they have.
Johnny Depp is reading a bit of ‘Finnegans Wake’ so it goes…
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/10/14/looking-for-a-guy-for-your-book-club-may-we-recommend-johnny-depp/?mod=google_news_blog